Tasker

Tasker is inspired by rake, jake, make, and-many-other-ake's

Goals

- Simple to use
- Doesn't polute the global namespace
- Node like (ex: supports async tasks)
- Use standard option flags
- Use like any other node module, not a binary

Example Tasker Script

var tasker = require('../');

// Namespaces:
tasker.namespace('example', function () {

tasker
.desc('Test Description')
.params(
{default: null, short: 'n', long: 'name', desc: 'Your name.'},
{default: null, short: 'a', long: 'age', desc: 'Your age.'}
)
.define('foo', ['bar'], function () {
var opts = tasker.opts;

console.log('Ran Foo', opts.name, opts.age)
});

});

// By including the next param you are indicating that this is an async
// task. You must call next() at some point or processing will cease.
tasker
.desc('Something else')
.define('bar', ['qux'], function (next) {
console.log('Ran Bar');
next();
});

tasker
.desc('Something else')
.define('qux', function () {
console.log('Ran Qux');
});

// This is required to start tasker after everything is defined
tasker.run();

// Usage: node ./examples/demo.js example:foo -n Ray -a 24
// Output:
// Ran Qux
// Ran Bar
// Ran Foo Ray 24

// Usage: node ./examples/demo.js bar
// Output:
// Ran Qux
// Ran Bar

// Usage: node ./examples/demo.js qux
// Output:
// Ran Qux

Tasker exports 6 functions. Other than that everything is pure, normal Node.js.
For example, you can use require to pull in tasks from other files. Just make
sure that you call tasker.run() last.